Tanca Nica 2023 Box Set

This is a box set of Tanca Nica's top cuvées from the 2023 vintage. Consisting of 4 bottles each from a single vineyard around the island of Pantelleria, all the wines are made from the Zibibbo grape with 3 days of skin contact. All fermented with indigenous yeast before being aged in glass demi-john.

The new presentation of these wines replaces the different coloured labels (Red, Yellow, Black, Grey) from the 2022 vintage.

Only 24 of these box sets came to the UK.

Details on each cuvée as follows;

Cufura 2023 - Previously known as 'Yellow Label' - From vines planted in 1934 at 300m altitude on deep Soki Soki soil. North East exposure.

Rukia 2023 - Previously known as 'Grey Label' - From vines planted in 1970 at 150m altitude on shallow Soki Soki soil over a lava bedrock. West exposure.

San Marco 2023 - Previously known as 'Red Label' - From vines planted in 2014 at 50m altitude on Terra Forte soil. North East exposure.

Bugeber 2023 - Previously known as 'Black Label' - From vines planted in 1931 at 300m altitude on shallow Terra Forte soil over basalt bedrock. North East exposure

Notes on the Winemaker: Tanca Nica is the natural wine project of Francesco Ferreri & Nicoletta Pecorelli who farm just 3 hectares of vines the small and remote island of Pantelleria. Located off the coast of Tunisia, the island is party of Italy and boasts Sicilian cultural traditions. The wines from Tanca Nica are wild but precise and complex, displaying all the signs of sun baked land and Mediterranean influence.